Notice of sorts

[riari]

Not that I think my friendslist is too big into images, but I thought I should pass this alone. Copied from painless_j 'cause it's easier to explain this way:

LJ has a feed for the latest images posted publicly here:
http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-img.bml

Someone has set up a community to scrape off any image that is posted that meets LJ icon requirements and post them to a community.

Now, the part that's the most annoying is that the images are hotlinked from the image source.

You can opt out of your posts being included in the latest feed by going to the Admin Console and type in these commands:

Journal Users:
set latest_optout yes

Community maintainers:
set for "community name" latest_optout yes

The community mentioned above is iconscraper. [/end]

So, that also means that its possible some unlocked porn icon-like images are also being posted. And any image you click on goes to their journal and so forth. Also, hotlinking is bad! And you know, all those poor icons being uncredited and what not...

So there you are.

Comments

[sarcastic-elf.livejournal.com]

I read about this a few days ago (off of LJ). I'm surprised (I know I shouldn't be) at how so many people think it just fine to take and use icons and such without crediting.